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241 - DALI (Salvador). Ten Recipes for Immortality. Paris, Audouin…
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Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Description
DALI (Salvador). Ten Recipes for Immortality. Paris, Audouin-Descharnes, 1973. Large, sturdy folio, first edition of this text conceived, written and illustrated by Salvador Dalí in Port Lligat, Paris and New York in 1971–1972, illustrated with 11 original drypoint engravings with photogravure, some in colour and gold, others forming a fold-out pop-up, one as a polyptych accompanied by a mirror, each justified and signed in pencil by the artist and bearing the bailiff’s stamp on the reverse, as well as a composition in moulded plastic. The text in loose sheets housed in folders with flaps and coloured spines. The whole forms a book-object housed in a methacrylate case-suitcase designed by Henri Mercher, with clasps and a handle in the shape of a silver-plated metal telephone cast by Keusseyan. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies on hand-made Auvergne paper (Vélin Narcisse grand demi Jésus Richard de Bas), signed by the artist, the publisher and the bailiff on the certificate of authenticity; this is no. 8. Copy comprising 8 engravings from the work, presented separately in frames. (missing the Japanese-style folio and the perforated copper plate that should accompany this copy; missing the keys for the clasps; significant damage, wear and scratches to the case; some soiling and wear; tears to the covers)
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Auction time 07/01/2026 at 2:00 PM
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